Railway repair and defect card holder.



110,745,597. PATENTED DEC, 1, 1903.

A. M. eoonwm. RAILWAY REPAIR AND DEFECT CARD HOLDER. APPLIOATIOH FILEDNOV. 28, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

Mfjzesszs UNITED STATES Patented December 1, 190a.

' ALPHONSO M. GOQDWIN, OF SAOO, MAINE.

RAILWAY REPAIR AND DEFECT CARD HOLDER.

' SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 745,597, datedDecember 1 1903.

Application filed November 26, 1902. fierial No. 132,906. (No model.)

tion of the invention, such aslwill enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in railway repair and defectcardholders.

. At the present time it is customary for carinspectors if they find adefect in the car either to repair it, in which case they tack to someportion of the car a card containing a description of the defect and therepairs made, or it the defect is such that they do not care toundertake its repair they tack to the car a card which simply describesthe defect. Inasmuch as these cards are exposed they are liable to gettorn oil and sometimes the description is defaced. To obviate the latterdefect, it is customary to print or write the description on both sidesof the card. This plan is in convenient and expensive, and to obviatethese objections is the purpose of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a cardholder in which one closure isadapted to hold both sets of cards. 1

In the drawing herewith accompanying and making a part of thisapplication I have illustrated my invention in a single perspective viewwith parts broken out, showing the construction and operation of theparts.

In said drawing, A represents a case, which may be of any suitablematerial, as galvanized iron, adapted to be attached to some part of thecar, as the sill, by means of screws B or other suitable attachingdevice. The case is closed at the sides and one end, the other end beingopen for convenience in inserting and withdrawing the cards. The openend is provided with a closure 0, pivotally attached to the case in anyconvenient manner, as by flanges D, which bestride the case and arepivotally mounted in the walls thereof by means of pivot-pins E. Theclosure is adapted to extend down over the open end of the case and toclose said open end when ject can be secured by having the sides extendslightly beyond the top of the. case. The top of the case is providedwith a downwardly-extended spring G, which tends to press down upon thetops of the cards and to hold them against accidental dislodgment.

The short or repair cards are placed in the holder at the bottom and thedefect-cards H on top, usually only one or two ofthe latter beingrequired. The closure is then turned into position and its lower edgeengages the top of the projecting edge of the longer card and bends itdown in front of the shorter cards, thus firmly holding both the shorterand the longer cards, being held in closed position by projection I onone member entering a corresponding recess Iin the other or in anyconvenient way.

Any structure'of the case and closure which permits the closure to bendthe longer card down in front of the. shorter one, whereby both sets ofcards may be held by a single closure, is within the spirit and scope ofmy invention. I prefer to have the shorter cards extend slightly beyondthe top of thecase,

but do not intend hereby to limit myself to that construction. Theadvantage of having the shorter cards project beyond the end of the caseis so that in putting them in the repair and defect cards can be readilysorted, the defect-cards being at the top, it only being necessary toplace the end of the defectcards on top of the extended portion of therepair-cards and in front of the case, and thus they are readily guidedwithin the case.

Repair-cards would, of course, be placed under the end of the longer ordefect card and thus pushed in. It will readily be seen that if therepair-cards did not project beyond the end of the case it would benatural to place the end of the defect-cards upon the base to ICO whichthe case is attached and they would I to swing into position in front ofand at some then enter the case underneath the repairdistance beyond thetop of the case andmeans cards unless great care was taken. I forattaching the case to a suitable base.

Having thus described my invention and In testimony whereof I affix mysignature, I5 its use, I clai1nin presence of two Witnesses, this 24thday of In a railway repair and defect card holder i November, 1902.adapted to hold cards of difierent lengths, I T some longer and someshorter than the card- ALPHONSO GOODWH\' holder, a suitable case havingone open end In presenceofand outwardly-extending flanges, a closureELGIN O. VERRILL, pivotally attached to the case and adapted MARIONRICHARDS.

